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Its likely Florida and Georgia will go to the GOP.
The only unknown seat is Mississippi, Its requires a runoff there, but I really doubt the Democrat is going to win
Its likely to be a 2 seat gain for the GOP in the senate and a 38 seat loss in the house
It seems the dems will gain 38 seats in the house, the most they have gained in any election since 1974.
If there were no regulations on health insurance, no company would want to cover a frum family, there is a pregancy almost every year ($10-$15,000 per birth assuming no troubles, NICU can costs hundreds of thousands of dollars) and kids get sick so there are always doctors bills. Its a losing proposition
I walk in Brooklyn all the time and I am not any more scared today than I was before the Summer
There is no daily assault of Jews in brookyln or anywhere else in NYC for that matter
The Agudah is more of a political organization than a Halachic one
The results appear to be alot worse for the GOP than originally seemed
The Dems look to gain 35 house seats, if all hold up as it seems
And now it seems the Arizona Senate seat will flip to the Dems (The democrat is now leading) and the Florida seat is up in the air with the GOP Leading
If Florida remains as a Dem , then the GOP will only gain 1 Senate seat and if Florida flips to the GOP then the GOP only got 2 Senate seats and the next 2 elections are more favorable to the Dems
Make it more pedestrian friendly, encourage bike riding, make buses that circle the neighborhood
I dont live in Lakewood, but Ive been there enough times, the Sidewalks there are terrible!!!! Especially since people walk alot especially on Shabbos and Yom Tov, It needs to be more pedestrian friendly especially in areas where there are no street lights, I feel like I am putting my life in danger walking in those areas
Joseph
The Moetzess has little control over the Vaad of Queens
If the only way Yiddishkeit can survive is in a place with virtual ghetto walls , then something is really wrong
even though he does not look anything immodest, he is considered a Russia.
Does that mean if someone does the opposite he is a France?
Just give them a bottle of wine or some nice Whiskey or Scotch.
If money isnt an issue give them a decent bottle of wine and not something by “Kedem” or “Rashi”
Queens is more Like Brooklyn than LA is like Queens
KGH is very much like Marine Park, so one cannot make a comparrison of neighborhoods
Most dinners honor people to bring in Money, not as a reward, meaning they honor people in the hope the honorees bring other people in to raise funds.
Money has to be raised somehow
If Traversing counts, then its likely More people traverse Queens than Brooklyn.
Queens has the Long Island Expressway , The Long Island Railroad , 2 Airport and a baseball stadium.
The Belt and BQE are both in Queens and Brooklyn
Manhattans population has not grown 10 fold, I n fact its gotten smaller
It was 1.8 Million in 1900 and is now 1.6 Million.
Its Brooklyn and especially Queens that have grown since 1900
Its Derech HaGoyim
The border between Brooklyn and Queens is Artificial, In fact there are places in the Ridgewood-Bushwick area where the border crosses in the middle of the street and someone even crosses people property (There are cases where someones house is in Queens and their backyard is in Brooklyn)
Jews rarely lived in their area and rarely go through it so most dont realize this
Queens is slightly bigger in Land area than Brooklyn, Brooklyn is slightly bigger in Population than Queens
If a legitimate Rav Poskins than an Eruv is Kosher, then there is no Chillul Shabbos even if most do not hold by it
I am probably the last person to ask on this, but I dont think its really the Melecha of Hotaza, I think the issue is if Brooklyn (and Queens) are Carmeles not Richus Harabin) I dont think you can make an eruv from Harabin , but only from a Karmales.
As far as the Kol Korea, that probably means very little to most people in Flatbush,
Queens Blvd is just as big as Ocean Parkway (Maybe even bigger) and there is a Subway underneath it as well and elevated train tracks 1 block away
I could be wrong here, but I think there is also the Halacha that if a street is bigger in one area than another, Its still a problem where the street is smaller , this is the problem with Route 9 in Lakewood, further north, Route 9 is a highway , but its not as big in lakewood itself and I think there is a problem crossing route 9
Main St in The Main Part of Flushing is a very congested area, but its alot smaller in Kew Gardens Hills, but its still the same Main St.
The Van Wyck Expressway also goes through Kew gardens Hills
The Forest Hills Eruv crosses Queens Blvd
There is an eruv from KGH to NY Presbyterian Queens Hospital that crosses the LIE
There are no barriers between KGH and Hillcrest (Just Random) and no Barriers between Hillcrest and Hollis Hills again Random and there are Eruvs between them
Population of Brooklyn 2.6 Million
Population of Queens 2.4 Million
Not much difference and the Populations of the 2 have been similar for a while
The boundry between Queens and Brookyn is really just an artificial boundry,
One can do a Mitzvah and do it in a Chilul hashem way. You can throw Pennies at a person asking for Tzdekah , Film it laughing while he picks up the pennies and post it on the internet.
You gave Tzdekah ,but its still a Chilul Hashem
Visit to the Kotel? or if thats not possible as they wont let them go out of the country, Disneyworld is usually a favorite
It is not a universally held opinion that one should reproach people via Mitzvah Goreret Averah, You dont think Chabad houses know that people drive to the services on Yom Kippur?
Its not about Holding that its Muttar, but Chabad feels better they drive to Shul than drive to the Mall and they hope to get them to follow more
Only KGH, not the rest of Queens and Forest Hills has Queens Blvd, Nor do I know if the Tshivah includes crossing the Long Island Expressway which there is an Eruv that does cross the Long Island Expressway
Queens has a very similar population and makeup to Brooklyn and has major streets going through it (Queens Blvd and the Long Island Expressway), yet Queens has Eruv’s that are not challenged. Its not just the KGH Eruv, there are Eruvs in a good chunk of Queens Like Forest Hills, Hillcrest , Briarwood and in fact there are Eruvs and connections from Forest Hills to the Nassau Border (About 10 Miles)
Most of the time the chickens arent given to the poor, they are thrown away. The heat and the waste from the other animals usually makes the chickens unsafe to eat.
There is a reason there are slaughterhouses, they process the meat safety and in a timely fashion so they are usuable
The woman from Jew in the city also posted
Kaparots is not a Chilul hashem
Doing Kaparot on a hot day in Brooklyn with solid waste and the chickens getting thrown into the garbage and not used IS a Chilul Hashem
If you are a student of History, IG Farben was the industrial company that used slave labor in Auschwitz and elsewhere
After the war they were considered so evil they were split into 3 companies
Bayer
Basf
AgfaCan someone take Bayer Aspirin or use T-Mobile phones?
The same people who oppose socialized medicine are mostly on Medicaid, Section 8, CHip and other government programs
There is this idea that anything a little different is the road to reform. Reform started preciscly because some changed were needed and were not done.
Every doros has its challenges and today’s major challenge is “religion is optional” meaning people will choose to be secular. The choice is not Selichot with or without music, the choice for many is selichot with music or not to go at all
I would expect some Goyim to fight over a football game, that is their nature, I do not expect yeshiva guys to fight in the Beis Medrash, they should be held to a higher standard
Did someone really type all that, or was it cut and pasted from somewhere?
Anyway B’H for Waze
Inviting him to your house for RH is something
The reason I’m pursuing this question is that I’m wondering where we draw the line between seeing something extreme and thinking “hmm, that individual is a bit odd”, and thinking, “wow, that’s a reflection of some systematic problem in the frum community.”
To me its just a symptom of many of people trying to out frum each other, and there are many other examples, however the Sushi one is sort of Politcal free and somewhat funny, however other ones are much more sinister , Just look at the YWN news and almost every day now we see articles about kids being kicked out or not let into schools and usually the reason is just nareshkeit
Gematria does not work with english, only Lashon Kodesh
I am just waiting for the person to answer He-Brew (Yes there is such a brand)